Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5000 nudges AMD below 10 percent market share

AMD, Nvidia and their partner manufacturers sold around 9.2 million desktop graphics cards in the first quarter of 2025. This is almost ten percent more than at the end of 2024 and six percent more than a year earlier.

This is the estimate of market observer Jon Peddie Research (JPR). Growth at the beginning of the year is unusual because buying interest traditionally drops after the vacation and Christmas period.

Nvidia earns well

Apparently, Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5000 graphics card series, also known as Blackwell, is a strong sales driver. The first two models, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, were released at the end of January. The RTX 5070 Ti followed in mid-February and the RTX 5070 at the beginning of March. Nvidia has thus more than halved AMD's market share again – 92 percent according to JPR Nvidia. AMD comes in at eight percent. The company only presented the new Radeon graphics cards RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 in March; they are therefore hardly included in the statistics. Intel is back in the per mille range.

If you add up the figures, Nvidia has sold almost 8.5 million desktop graphics cards and AMD a good 700,000. Intel didn't even manage 100,000 units, even though the Arc B580 and B570 are only a few months old. Intel presented them in December 2024 and January 2025.

Nvidia's latest annual report underpins the market observations: Last quarter, the company turned over more money with GeForce graphics cards than ever before. However, it is unclear whether all of the sales came from gamers. Chinese resellers are said to be converting GeForce RTX 5090 cards for AI servers on a large scale. In the West, the high-end models of the RTX 5000 series were only available at an overpriced price for months.

(mma)